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International Council for Science launches major research program on natural disasters
Date:10/21/2008

e World Meteorological Organization.

'With the predicted impacts of climate change, countries like Mozambique have no alternative but to integrate disaster risk reduction in development planning and climate change adaptation.'

The new programme, which builds on existing research activities, will address the impacts of disasters on all scales, from local to global. It will combine experience and expertise from around the world, and provide an unprecedented opportunity for the natural and social sciences to work together as never before.

McBean said, 'A truly global, interdisciplinary approach is essential if we are to provide the knowledge that can avoid unnecessary losses and save thousands, or even millions of lives'.

IRDR will focus on all hazards related to geophysical, oceanographic, climate and weather trigger eventsand even space weather and impact by near-Earth objects. The programme will also take account of the effects of human activities in creating hazardsor making them worse.


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